A Force More Powerful

A Force More Powerful: A Century Of Nonviolent Conflict, a riveting three-hour documentary tells one of humanity’s most important and least understood stories – how, during a century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle brutality and oppression with nonviolent weapons – and won.

You never change anything by fighting the existing. To change
something, build a new model and make the existing obsolete!
Buckminster Fuller

The first principle of nonviolent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
Mahatma Gandhi

The thing about nonviolence is that when you step out of the shower, you are fully armed.
Rev. Bernard Lafayette

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.
Petra Kelly

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened… So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi

I freed a lot of slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman

The greatest radicals are all revolutionaries of the heart.
Rivera Sun

Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don’t even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it’s time they did.
Carol Lee Flinders

Love grows with practice; there is no other way.
Eknath Easwaran

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